Plate XXII 







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Red top is a variety of bent grass unsurpassed for growing on 

 sandy soils and is the foundation for the lawns at Newport. The seed 

 is much smaller than that of Kentucky blue grass and is about the 

 same size as timothy, but is not so wide, and is easily distinguished by 

 its colour. Red top seed is a Ught brown; timothy seed is gray-green 



The lawn grass mixture should be nearly all of this grass — Ken- 

 tucky blue. It is a permanent grass which takes three years to make 

 a perfect turf, and will in time crowd out any other grasses that are 

 in the mixture if the lawn is made on a rich moist loam, not acid 



epirn« nn THR TWO GOOD LAWN GRASSES 



